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...subdivisions, sycamore striplings strained at their stakes to promise token cover for the bare houses of glass, steel, stone and shingle that have sprouted (19 million since 1940) as from a bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink...
...detailed 77-page statement to Republican State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski, Burglar Morrison told of a year spent stealing with the cops of the Summerdale District. Morrison filched antifreeze for his colleagues in the winter, outboard motors in the spring, television sets as the World Series rolled around. Generally, Morrison kept what cash he could find, and the stolen merchandise went to the cops, who arranged to have it hauled away. "They wouldn't let me get by over a week," he complained in his statement, "without asking me to give them a night of my services...
...National Motor Boat Show towing along 426 exhibits and 510 boats, the biggest fleet in show history. Crowds were so big-and sales so brisk-that the industry expects 1960 will easily top record 1959 when nearly $2.5 billion was spent on boating, including sales of 540,000 outboard motors, some 500,000 boats, and 175,000 boat trailers...
...Horsepower Race. For power boaters, there was Triumph's 29-ft. inboard cruiser ($15,990) with a cantilevered aircraft-carrier foredeck and all-electric galley. And for less expensive tastes, Molded Fiber Glass Boat Co. showed a 19-ft. outboard cabin cruiser ($2,800) designed by famed naval architects Gibbs & Cox. Other plastic boats ranged from Sock Boat Corp.'s do-it-yourself runabout ($395), which can be assembled by a novice in 20 hours to the 8-ft. ($325) Dhow midget rowboat. In general, outboards had less chrome, fewer fins, increased storage for gas, paid more attention...
There was no letup in the outboard horsepower race. Outboard Marine's best-selling twins, Johnson and Evinrude, each unveiled a $908.50, 75-h.p. giant (up from 1958's 50 h.p. tops); Mercury showed off a 80 h.p. behemoth (price: $1,100 without propeller). While out-boarders felt that they were almost to the limit in horsepower for the hulls now in existence, Scott showed an experimental...